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					<title>Deep-sea expedition reveals rare octo-nurseries off Costa Rica</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/deep-sea-expedition-reveals-rare-octo-nurseries-off-costa-rica/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jul 2023 19:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Baby Animals, Deep Sea, Ecosystems, Exploration, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, and Oceans]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2013, scientists found octopuses doing something unusual at Dorado Outcrop, a small seamount off the west coast of Costa Rica. While most octopuses are known to be solitary animals, females had gathered at this spot to brood their eggs near a low-temperature hydrothermal vent. But at the time, scientists didn’t see any octopus babies, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2013, scientists found octopuses doing something unusual at Dorado Outcrop, a small seamount off the west coast of Costa Rica. While most octopuses are known to be solitary animals, females had gathered at this spot to brood their eggs near a low-temperature hydrothermal vent. But at the time, scientists didn’t see any octopus babies, which led them to theorize that the warm water and limited oxygen at the vent wasn’t allowing the eggs to develop fully. Ten years later, in June 2023, researchers plunged a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, back into the deep sea to search for the brooding octopuses at Dorado Outcrop. They got an even bigger surprise when they found them: this time, there were babies, making the outcrop a so-called “octopus nursery.” “​​The ROV mission control room erupted in squeals of amazement,” Beth Orcutt, an oceanographer of the U.S.-based Bigelow Laboratory, who co-led the mission, told Mongabay in an email. “People [were] pointing their fingers at the screens excitedly, clapping, hugging.” Several days later, the researchers discovered a second octopus nursery about thirty nautical miles away from the Dorado Outcrop on another low-temperature vent. Together, these two locations are two of only three known deep-sea octopus nurseries in the world. The third is on the Davidson Seamount off the coast of California. The biggest finding of the expedition is the confirmation that the small Dorado Outcrop in Costa Rica’s Pacific waters hosts an octopus nursery with hundreds of Muusoctopus species brooding viable eggs in low-temperature&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/deep-sea-expedition-reveals-rare-octo-nurseries-off-costa-rica/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270550</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘The images are confronting’: Q&#038;A with animal photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/the-images-are-confronting-qa-with-animal-photojournalist-jo-anne-mcarthur/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Oct 2021 18:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animal Intelligence, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animals, Baby Animals, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, COVID-19, Crime, Environment, Pandemics, Photos, Pollution, Wildlife, Wildlife consumption, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the title page of Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene is a black-and-white portrait of a lamb. The little animal, probably only a few weeks old, stands alone on the stained concrete floor of a slaughterhouse at a live animal market in China. The lamb gazes forward, its chin lifted, almost like it’s trying to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the title page of Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene is a black-and-white portrait of a lamb. The little animal, probably only a few weeks old, stands alone on the stained concrete floor of a slaughterhouse at a live animal market in China. The lamb gazes forward, its chin lifted, almost like it’s trying to catch the eye of the photographer. Shortly after the image was taken, the young lamb was likely killed for its meat. In the pages that follow, there are photos of battery hens standing on the dead bodies of their companions in crammed cages in Spain; the heads of slaughtered dogs tossed into a bowl at a market in Cambodia; piles of fish gasping for air after being caught by an industrial trawler off the coast of France. Some of the most confronting pictures are those that show animals in blood-smeared slaughterhouses, wide-eyed as they watch people kill their companions shortly before their turn arrives. “There&#8217;s a lot of wildlife photography out there and photography of companion animals, but [not of] these hidden animals,” Jo-Anne McArthur, co-editor of the book, told Mongabay in an interview. “We’re just like, ‘Oh, well, they&#8217;re for our consumption. They’re not worthy of any attention. That&#8217;s different.’ But it’s not different.” McArthur, an award-winning photographer who has spent more than 20 years photographing the human-animal relationship, and who was once diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder due to the intensity of her work, says the photographs in Hidden follow in the tradition&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/the-images-are-confronting-qa-with-animal-photojournalist-jo-anne-mcarthur/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Snapshot of hatchlings raises hopes for Siamese crocs in northeast Cambodia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/snapshot-of-hatchlings-raises-hopes-for-siamese-crocs-in-northeast-cambodia/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Sep 2021 12:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Carolyncowan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Baby Animals, Biodiversity, Captive Breeding, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Extinction, Fishing, Freshwater, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Herps, Illegal Trade, In-situ Conservation, Poaching, Protected Areas, Reptiles, Rivers, Tropics, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[They say you should never smile at a crocodile. But that’s exactly what happened on Sept. 9 when a team of researchers discovered a group of eight Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) hatchlings in the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected wetland landscape in northeastern Cambodia. The happy sighting was made by researchers from the Ministry of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[They say you should never smile at a crocodile. But that’s exactly what happened on Sept. 9 when a team of researchers discovered a group of eight Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) hatchlings in the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, a protected wetland landscape in northeastern Cambodia. The happy sighting was made by researchers from the Ministry of Environment and WWF-Cambodia while conducting nocturnal surveys of crocodile activity in the wetlands. They also managed to photograph the hatchlings. This is the first evidence that the critically endangered species is breeding in this part of Cambodia in 10 years of painstaking surveys. “The Srepok discovery indeed raises hope for Siamese crocodile conservation and survival in the wild, and is a significant finding for the species in Cambodia,” Milou Groenenberg, biodiversity research and monitoring manager for WWF, said in a statement. According to Sothea Bun, one of the field researchers, the “exciting moment” came after a series of night surveys and many soggy hours scouting locations where crocodile footprints, burrows, tail marks and dung were recorded in prior surveys. Shining a torch into a patch of water, one of the team witnessed the telltale sign of nocturnal life: reflected eyeshine. Field research team have scoured Srepok&#8217;s wetland systems for crocodile activity for 10 years, finally finding evidence of breeding Siamese crocodiles in 2021. Image courtesy of Cambodia Ministry of Environment/WWF-Cambodia Siamese crocodiles, a medium-size freshwater species, were considered virtually extinct in the wild in the 1990s. However, over the past two decades, small, isolated populations&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/snapshot-of-hatchlings-raises-hopes-for-siamese-crocs-in-northeast-cambodia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Giant otter thought to be extinct in Argentina resurfaces. Literally</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/giant-otter-thought-to-be-extinct-in-argentina-resurfaces-literally/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 May 2021 19:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Baby Animals, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Endangered Species, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Rediscovered Species, Rewilding, Species, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ten days ago, Sebastian di Martino was kayaking along the Bermejo River in Argentina’s Impenetrable National Park when he heard a splash. He looked around and saw a brown-furred animal swimming through the water, occasionally dipping below the surface and then reappearing. It was a giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), a species believed to be [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ten days ago, Sebastian di Martino was kayaking along the Bermejo River in Argentina’s Impenetrable National Park when he heard a splash. He looked around and saw a brown-furred animal swimming through the water, occasionally dipping below the surface and then reappearing. It was a giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), a species believed to be extinct in Argentina. “I was surprised and excited,” Di Martino, director of conservation at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, told Mongabay in an interview. “At the beginning, I couldn&#8217;t believe what I was seeing.” Di Martino took out his phone and started filming. “Otherwise it&#8217;s kind of complicated that someone believes that you saw a giant otter,” he said. From the time of European colonization, giant otters began to slowly disappear from Argentina, mainly due to hunting pressure. The last giant otters in the country were spotted in a river in the Misiones Province in the 1980s — but there have been no known sightings since. At the moment, it’s not clear where this particular otter came from. The nearest known giant otter populations are in the Paraguayan Pantanal, hundreds of miles away. Di Martino says it’s possible that the otter broke away from its family group and swam here. But it’s also possible that otters have remained in Argentina unbeknown to conservationists. The giant otter spotted in Argentina&#8217;s Bermejo River. Image courtesy of Rewilding Argentina. Impenetrable National Park was established in 2014 with the help of Rewilding Argentina and Tompkins Conservation as part of a grand&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/giant-otter-thought-to-be-extinct-in-argentina-resurfaces-literally/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-243045</doi>				</item>
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					<title>With baby animals, patience pays: Photographer describes new book of intimate portraits</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/with-baby-animals-patience-pays-photographer-describes-new-book-of-intimate-portraits/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 May 2021 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Baby Animals, Conservation, Environment, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Interviews, Photos, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer whose work adorns over 100 cover and feature stories for publications from TIME to Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, The New York Times, and Ranger Rick. With 21 books in print and another three in progress, she is always on the go but it&#8217;s usually a case of &#8216;hurry up [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Suzi Eszterhas is an award-winning wildlife photographer whose work adorns over 100 cover and feature stories for publications from TIME to Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, The New York Times, and Ranger Rick. With 21 books in print and another three in progress, she is always on the go but it&#8217;s usually a case of &#8216;hurry up and wait.&#8217; Best known for her work documenting newborn animals and family life in the wild, she&#8217;s constantly ready for biologists to alert her about a new birth which sends her hurrying out the door, but upon arriving it can be weeks before she makes her first images, as she waits for wary parents to become used to her presence. Eszterhas is a dedicated conservationist, too, and raises funds and awareness for environmental organizations around the globe, and recently founded Girls Who Click, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging young women to enter this male-dominated profession. She was recently named as Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year by the North American Nature Photography Association, and despite her busy schedule took a few minutes to answer Mongabay&#8217;s questions about her latest book, &#8220;New on Earth: Baby Animals in the Wild.&#8221; Mongabay: You&#8217;re well known for images of baby animals, why is this your focus? Suzi Eszterhas: When I was six years old my parents bought me a point and shoot camera, which I used to photograph my cats in my backyard and then later told people that they were lions on the African savanna or tigers in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/with-baby-animals-patience-pays-photographer-describes-new-book-of-intimate-portraits/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-242220</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Big cat comeback: Jaguars prowl Argentina’s Iberá Wetlands after 70 years</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/big-cat-comeback-jaguars-prowl-argentinas-ibera-wetlands-after-70-years/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Jan 2021 15:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Baby Animals, Big Cats, Carnivores, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Human-wildlife Conflict, National Parks, Reintroductions, Rewilding, Tracking, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s been 70 years since jaguars left their round, four-toed footprints in the ground of the Iberá Wetlands, a 1.3-million-hectare (3.2-million-acre) tract of swamps, waterways and islands in northeastern Argentina’s Corrientes province. But things are changing now. Two weeks ago, conservationists opened up a pen that held two 4-month-old jaguar cubs, Karai and Porã, and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s been 70 years since jaguars left their round, four-toed footprints in the ground of the Iberá Wetlands, a 1.3-million-hectare (3.2-million-acre) tract of swamps, waterways and islands in northeastern Argentina’s Corrientes province. But things are changing now. Two weeks ago, conservationists opened up a pen that held two 4-month-old jaguar cubs, Karai and Porã, and their mother, Mariua, giving them free and open access to Gran Iberá Park, a 709,717-hectare (1.75-million-acre) park established in 2018 by the NGO Tompkins Conservation. This release is part of a grand scheme to rewild the Iberá Wetlands by reinstating several species, including the jaguar (Panthera onca), which was driven to local extinction due to hunting and habitat loss. Sebastian di Martino, conservation director at Fundación Rewildling Argentina, an NGO that works in collaboration with Tompkins Conservation, the Argentine government, Argentina’s national parks agency, and the Corrientes provincial government, said the release of the jaguars is the result of 10 years of hard work. “For us, it is incredible &#8230; seeing these animals leaving the pen in the video and leaving their footprints in the middle of the Iberá Wetlands,” di Martino told Mongabay in an interview. “We&#8217;ve had the opportunity to spot them twice already, free [in the park]. It’s an incredible accomplishment for us.” Jaguar populations used to sprawl across the Americas, ranging from the southwestern United States all the way down to Patagonia in southern Argentina. But the species, which is classified as near threatened by the IUCN, has been eradicated from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/big-cat-comeback-jaguars-prowl-argentinas-ibera-wetlands-after-70-years/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-the-horn-of-africa-conflict-and-illegal-trade-create-a-cheetah-hell/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Oct 2020 05:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Baby Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Cheetahs, Climate Change, Conservation, Education, Environment, Farming, Green, Human-wildlife Conflict, Livestock, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescues, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 8-week-old cheetah cubs should have been with their mother. Instead, they were penned up in a small village near Erigavo, Somaliland, after a group of nomadic livestock farmers chased the mother away and captured the cubs from a nearby cave. “There were actually three [cubs],” Asma Bileh, a Somaliland veterinarian for the Cheetah Conservation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 8-week-old cheetah cubs should have been with their mother. Instead, they were penned up in a small village near Erigavo, Somaliland, after a group of nomadic livestock farmers chased the mother away and captured the cubs from a nearby cave. “There were actually three [cubs],” Asma Bileh, a Somaliland veterinarian for the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), told Mongabay. “One died immediately … so they brought back two of them into their houses. They were keeping them for a while.” One of the two cubs rescued near Erigavo, Somaliland on August 22, 2020. Image provided by Cheetah Conservation Fund and the Somaliland Ministry of Environment and Rural Development. When Somaliland’s Ministry of Environment and Rural Development (MoERD) received a tip about the cubs, a rescue team, which included Bileh, traveled to the village on Aug. 22. The baby cheetahs were a little malnourished and dehydrated, having only been fed small portions of goat milk and meat, which hadn’t provided enough sustenance. These cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are among dozens of cubs that have been rescued by the MoERD-CCF team in Somaliland this year; as of this week, CCF reported a total of 29 rescued cubs since January, three of which have died. The reason for this onslaught of rescued cubs is human-wildlife conflicts between livestock farmers and wild cheetahs, as well as the illegal demand for wild cheetahs as pets in the Middle East, according to conservationists. While the global cheetah population is estimated to be around 7,100, the local population&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-the-horn-of-africa-conflict-and-illegal-trade-create-a-cheetah-hell/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘We are all ecstatic’: Rescued wild pangolin gives birth to healthy pup</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/we-are-all-ecstatic-rescued-wild-pangolin-gives-birth-to-healthy-pup/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Sep 2020 15:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, China, and South Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Baby Animals, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Illegal Trade, Pangolins, Trade, Wildlife, Wildlife consumption, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescues, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ally arrived at the veterinary hospital the way most rescued pangolins do: underweight, dehydrated and suffering from pneumonia. But a routine ultrasound revealed that Ally wasn’t a typical patient — she was also pregnant. In April, officials working for the South African Police Service’s Endangered Species Unit managed to rescue Ally, a wild Temminck&#8217;s pangolin [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ally arrived at the veterinary hospital the way most rescued pangolins do: underweight, dehydrated and suffering from pneumonia. But a routine ultrasound revealed that Ally wasn’t a typical patient — she was also pregnant. In April, officials working for the South African Police Service’s Endangered Species Unit managed to rescue Ally, a wild Temminck&#8217;s pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), from people attempting to traffic her for her body parts. Pangolins will not eat or drink while in captivity due to extreme stress, says Ray Jansen, chairman of the African Pangolin Working Group (APWG), so her health had quickly deteriorated while in the hands of the traffickers. Ally being treated at the vet hospital. Image by Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Hospital. “You&#8217;ve got this incredibly innocent animal with no natural predators being exposed to loud music, smoke, alcohol, taxis,” Jansen told Mongabay. “It&#8217;s just absolutely horrific. I&#8217;ve got videos of them being picked up by their scales, being hit with &#8230; machetes, being kicked around, thrown around. They’re severely abused. So you&#8217;ve got to deal with that mental trauma, as well as the … illnesses they pick up in the trade, and the starvation and the dehydration.” The eight species of pangolins are considered to be the most commonly trafficked animals in the wildlife trade. They are mainly traded for their scales, which continue to be a key ingredient in some Chinese traditional medicines, even after China enacted a ban on pangolin scales in June. Pangolin meat is also considered to be a delicacy&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/we-are-all-ecstatic-rescued-wild-pangolin-gives-birth-to-healthy-pup/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Captive breeding helps New Zealand’s threatened black stilts take flight</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/captive-breeding-helps-new-zealands-threatened-black-stilts-take-flight/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Aug 2020 15:42:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[New Zealand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Baby Animals, Birds, Captive Breeding, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Invasive Species, Wildlife, and Wildlife Rehabilitation]]>
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							<![CDATA[A group of students and parents huddled behind a row of wooden boxes in New Zealand’s Godley Valley on the country’s South Island. The box doors were flung open, and birds with fluffy white bellies and long, pointy bills flapped their black wings, chirping as they took off into the crisp winter air. This month, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A group of students and parents huddled behind a row of wooden boxes in New Zealand’s Godley Valley on the country’s South Island. The box doors were flung open, and birds with fluffy white bellies and long, pointy bills flapped their black wings, chirping as they took off into the crisp winter air. This month, New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) released 104 captive-bred black stilts (Himantopus novaezelandiae), or kakī as they’re called in the local Māori language, as part of its Kakī Recovery Programme. Black stilts, which are wading birds, are critically endangered, with fewer than 200 individuals remaining in the wild. The Kakī Recovery Programme aims to give a much-needed boost to wild populations, and so far, it seems to be working. Captively-bred black stilts being released into the wild in August 2020. Image by Liz Brown / DOC. For the past 40 years, the program has seen a steady increase in numbers. Then, between 2019 and 2020, a big jump occurred: the adult kakī population increased by 30%, with 169 adult individuals now detected in the wild. “A contributing factor was the 2017 breeding season, which saw an increased number of eggs produced by wild pairs collected for artificial incubation and rearing through our captive facilities,” Liz Brown of New Zealand’s DOC told Mongabay in an email. “Expansion of predator control throughout kakī habitat was initiated by Te Manahuna Aoraki [another DOC program] in 2018, giving the released birds an increased chance of survival into adulthood.” The&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/captive-breeding-helps-new-zealands-threatened-black-stilts-take-flight/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Baby humpback whales bulk up in Hawaii ahead of migration [VIDEO]</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/baby-humpback-whales-bulk-up-in-hawaii-ahead-of-migration-video/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jun 2020 12:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alaska, Global, Hawaii, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Baby Animals, Biodiversity, Charismatic Animals, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Fish, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Migration, Oceans, Technology, Tracking, Whales, Whaling, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Newly released video footage gives us a glimpse of a rarely seen behavior: baby humpback whales nursing in the sheltered breeding grounds of Maui. Here, the young calves must drink enough milk to fatten up for an epic journey: an up to two-month migration across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska. A team of researchers used [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Newly released video footage gives us a glimpse of a rarely seen behavior: baby humpback whales nursing in the sheltered breeding grounds of Maui. Here, the young calves must drink enough milk to fatten up for an epic journey: an up to two-month migration across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska. A team of researchers used non-invasive suction cups to outfit seven baby humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) with CATS tags. Each specialized tag contains a built-in camera, acoustic recorder, depth sensors and tri-accelerometers, and was designed to provide information on the whales’ social interactions, movements, breathing patterns, nursing behavior and nursing frequency. The scientists hope to use this information to better understand the needs of mother whales and their calves during their time in the tropics. Lars Bejder, director of the Marine Mammal Research Program at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, and Ph.D. candidates Martin van Aswegen and Will Gough tagged and recorded the whales over a 10-day period in February 2020. The project is a collaboration between the Marine Mammal Research Program, the Goldbogen Lab at Stanford University&#8217;s Hopkins Marine Station, the Friedlaender Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary, Pacific Whale Foundation and the Oceanwide Science Institute. “What we are trying to understand with these new technologies is how much time do calves need to nurse from their moms to get strong and big enough to be able to make their journey back up north to their Alaskan feeding grounds,” Bejder said in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/baby-humpback-whales-bulk-up-in-hawaii-ahead-of-migration-video/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-231072</doi>				</item>
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					<title>First-ever conviction for orangutan trafficking in Aceh</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/first-ever-conviction-for-orangutan-trafficking-in-aceh/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Nov 2015 06:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Chik Rini]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indonesian Forests and Leuser Ecosystem]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aceh, Indonesia, Leuser Ecosystem, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Baby Animals, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Mammals, Orangutans, Primates, Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[A wildlife trafficker who was caught trying to sell three baby orangutans on Facebook was sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined 50 million rupiah ($3,653) in Indonesia&#8217;s Aceh province last week. The man, a 29-year-old university student named Rahmadani, was arrested in a sting on August 1. Besides the Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), authorities [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A wildlife trafficker who was caught trying to sell three baby orangutans on Facebook was sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined 50 million rupiah ($3,653) in Indonesia&#8217;s Aceh province last week. The man, a 29-year-old university student named Rahmadani, was arrested in a sting on August 1. Besides the Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii), authorities found him with two red-backed sea eagles (Haliastur indus); a great argus (Argusianus argus), which is a type of pheasant; and a taxidermied Sunda clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi). &#8220;Hopefully the conviction serves as a deterrent for would-be perpetrators of environmental crimes, including traffickers of protected plants and animals,&#8221; said Genman Hasibuan, head of the Aceh branch of the Natural Resources Conservation Agency (BKSDA), which assisted in the sting. &#8220;This verdict is the first such conviction in Aceh,&#8221; said Panut Hadisiswoyo, director of the Orangutan Information Center, which also helped track the man. &#8220;It is an important milestone for law enforcement efforts in regard to environmental crimes in Aceh.&#8221; One of the baby orangutans that was confiscated from a trafficker in Aceh in August. Photo by Junaidi Hanafiah However, Panut said the man should have received a stronger sentence. The maximum penalty for wildlife trafficking under the 1990 Conservation Law is five years imprisonment and a 100 million rupiah fine. He noted that in neighboring North Sumatra province in July, a man who was caught trying to sell just one baby orangutan was sentenced to two years behind bars and a 10 million rupiah fine. &#8220;That&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/first-ever-conviction-for-orangutan-trafficking-in-aceh/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-162752</doi>				</item>
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					<title>World Rhino Day arrives this year with a new cause for celebration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/world-rhino-day-arrives-this-year-with-a-new-cause-for-celebration/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Sep 2015 19:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Indonesia, South Sumatra, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Baby Animals, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Rhinos, Sumatran Rhino, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Just in time for World Rhino Day comes an announcement out of South Sumatra, Indonesia. Way Kambas National Park will soon be celebrating the arrival of a new rhino calf that will be joining the other 5 rhino residents of the national park’s Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. Ratu, whose name means, “queen,” is estimated to have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Just in time for World Rhino Day comes an announcement out of South Sumatra, Indonesia. Way Kambas National Park will soon be celebrating the arrival of a new rhino calf that will be joining the other 5 rhino residents of the national park’s Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. Ratu, whose name means, “queen,” is estimated to have been born in 1999 in Way Kambas National Park. She is the second youngest female Sumatran Rhino living in the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary. The mother is expected to give birth to her new calf in May. Her first calf, Andatu, was born at the sanctuary in 2012. Both calves were fathered by Andalas, born at the Cincinnati Zoo and was moved from the Las Angeles Zoo to Indonesia in 2007. Andatu, the first Sumatran rhino born at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary, takes tentative first steps on his first day of life in 2012. Andatu is Ratu’s first child. Ratu is currently pregnant with her second calf — due in May 2016 — and the new calf will resemble its older brother. Photo courtesy of the International Rhino Foundation. This announcement gives special significance to World Rhino Day as this new pregnancy offers new hope for the endangered species. “One birth doesn’t save a species, but it’s one more Sumatran rhino on Earth,” said Dr. Susie Ellis, executive director of the International Rhino Foundation, in a press release. “The new calf affirms that there is expertise in Indonesia to breed Sumatran rhinos. This pregnancy comes at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/09/world-rhino-day-arrives-this-year-with-a-new-cause-for-celebration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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